Society - 35MM | The Surreal Nightmares of Screaming Mad George

Screen Slate Presents
Psycho-Fiction: The Surreal Nightmares of Screaming Mad George

Brian Yuzna’s tangle of class warfare, scatalogy and ugly sex is a stupendously unsubtle eat-the-rich satire. The film’s central metaphor, which suits the 21st century even better than it did the Reagan-Bush 80s, presents the wealthy as literally inhuman gluttons. Since time immemorial, this cupidinous race has parasitically feasted on the inferior homo sapiens during “shuntings,” Burroughsian nightmares of viscera, gobs of lube and denatured flesh. The mutations are the greatest showcase of the unnerving surrealistic makeup designs of Screaming Mad George—which went on to be the primary influence on the make-up designs of films like The Substance and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil.

Preceded by a special video musical performance!